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arch is right in the middle of the men s and women s college basketball tournament march madness and right after the nfl season concludes okay what s the big deal about sports right well i ve noticed the past several blizz releases are promoted heavily on u s sports broadcasts cata mists d3 and sc2 have all been promoted heavily on espn fox sports and regular network sports broadcasts blizz would be crazy to not try to capitalize on the sporting events over january through march i ve been seeing ads for assassin s creed iii on baseball the olympics and american football since the summer and believe me blizz took notice they want that gamer demographic that sports broadcasts provides which also begs the question why didn t other mmo game companies such as funcom bioware or arenanet go for the same advertising target as heavily given the discussions in gen chat during the olympics you d think that the sports viewer is a large part of the audience for tor star wars or no star wars and the secret world would be perfect for that subset as well particularly given all of the crime dramas that the cbs network promotes on their sports broadcasts it seems that these companies as well as turbine relied more upon social media rather than going out and promoting their game in the same manner that blizz does social media is great but it has to be one part of a more comprehensive advertising plan well here s to the next several months and seeing a lot of sarah kerrigan on the small screen hots yeah that ll work for an acronym i can see the youtube video now going out with your s o on valentine s day or playing a video game you decide posted by redbeard at 9 09 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard musings starcraft tuesday november 13 2012 thank you sir may i have another i was going to write about how i have to shake off the cobwebs when i switch toons around and how i have to make sure i have my buttons aligned up across toons and potentially even mmos but technical difficulties got in the way this saturday i was down in the basement insulating the rim joists when i heard an argument break out among the kids upstairs dad one of them called come up and fix the computer i shook off the foam insulation shavings on me and marched upstairs expecting to have to power cycle a locked up computer the kids know all about the old three finger salute and can navigate the task manager to kill a hung program so when i get called it s either for a a password or b to power cycle something when i arrived in front of the computer however i was confronted by a solid color screen uh oh i said what did you do i didn t do it steph did it my son replied i didn t do anything she wailed i was exiting lotro and the screen came up well i said reaching around the pc s case let me hard boot it after a hard boot i got to the login screen only to have it disappear behind a solid tan color crap this isn t good can you fix it i can try let me boot it into safe mode and make sure we don t have any disk trouble or malware but i think we lost a graphics card several hours and many reboots later i m convinced that it s either the graphics card failing or the cpu overheating once the second or third fan kicks in during the boot cycle the video goes crazy i almost wished it was malware because i can fix that more easily than a hardware problem sighing i got up and wandered over to where my youngest was sitting on the couch wearing a melancholy expression on her face it wasn t your fault i told her it s a hardware problem and nothing you did caused that can i help she asked brightening no i ve got to figure out what to do like anna over at too many annas i m confronted by a failing aging pc with obsolete architecture in my case 32 bit architecture and if this is the graphics card a replacement might require me to replace the power supply as well and if it s the cpu finding a replacement motherboard might be more trouble than it s worth the pc is over five years old and it was only a middle of the pack machine back when i bought it therefore i guess that means it s time to replace the old warhorse as a corollary to this it means i m kind of out of an mmo machine for the time being i suppose i could install one of the mmos that the kids and i both play on the new laptop i d gotten for their schoolwork but it s not an ideal situation besides i d prefer keeping as many games off of a supposedly work school machine as possible yeah and maybe pigs will fly without the aid of a trebuchet so i guess i m going to write about things that have already happened as opposed to anything recent but really i m not a bleeding edge kind of guy the last time i did that with the pc industry was 1999 when i plunked down way too many dollars to get one of the first amd athlon machines which then went for half of that price within six months and as for gaming ever heard of the game darklands that was the last time i got a game right as it came out and immediately dove into it and ow were the bugs bad having learned my lesson i merely aim for something reasonable and waiting patiently for any bugs to shake out for the curious here s a link from the online version of the family handyman and for the record their estimate of a day for how long it takes doesn t take into account actually moving any crap in the basement around depending on the amount of crap you have it can take many days if you re remember when cata was released i didn t enter into any cata zones until three months later when the i m bored refrain was in full swing and yes eventually darklands got the bugs worked out and was an excellent game but the damage had already been done to microprose s reputation even sid meier s civ 2 and colonization couldn t save the long decline of microprose eta fixed an autocorrect error what is it with those things anyway posted by redbeard at 11 56 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels computers family musings tuesday november 6 2012 anybody remember shorthand one thing that has always amazed me is the ability of some people to type messages on the fly while playing an mmo perhaps i m showing my age but i have to stop what i m doing and type with both hands in order to respond to something i m watching if i m in a bg and we get jumped by 4 5 people in arathi basin i basically have to sacrifice myself in order to warn everyone else all i can do is marvel at the people who raid and can type while they re casting or playing whack a boss i once carried on a conversation with a blogger friend while the blogger was in the middle of progression icc when i mentioned that i ll let him do his job he kind of laughed it off saying it wasn t a big deal i suppose that s were a multi button mouse like the razer naga comes in handy of course you still have to be able to type with one hand and i m kind of lousy at that what would be nice would be combining voice recognition software with an mmo so that you can speak into a mic and have what you re saying pop up in typewritten chat of course i can see some readers saying there s this thing called mumble or vent and it really works yes i know all about those but when do you use that when you get into a random bg or an instance pug without guildies or any other guild to provide vent access last i checked most non raid pugs just roll with it and get going without much more than a howdy the thing is the more you play the more complex things are the nicer it is to communicate without these artificial barriers for example discussing which enemy to dps down when confronting the opposing faction team in mandalorian raiders helps that encounter go much more smoothly likewise working out strategy in gundrak helps make fighting gal darah that much easier i ve found that more wipes come from a lack of coherent strategy such as in halls of reflections or magister s terrace than the inability to get the job done perhaps the worst place for a strategy breakdown is in the long run to get away from arthas in hor because if not everybody is on the same page that increases the likelihood of a wipe exponentially that loops back to the need to communicate and the disadvantages puggers have over guild runs i can type and type quickly not everybody can i can t type on the fly in the middle of a fight while others can that means that other forms of communication such as audio chat are superior because people can communicate without changing what they re doing however the current setup of using a third party tool often paid for by a guild who would naturally be reluctant to share with a non guildie is a barrier that ought to be examined yes i know about wow s built in audio chat but really who does use that anyway here is an opportunity for either an entrepreneur or an mmo company to fill in a communication gap and reap some nice profits well unless i m stealthed as a rogue even then if i m low enough level people will find me easily posted by redbeard at 2 13 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mmos musings friday november 2 2012 all crossed up maybe it s just me but i m starting to wonder how useful the cross server lowbie zones have been lately sure there are more people in the zones but i ve been surprised at how quickly the zone population plummeted a month after release i ve been cruising the lowbie zones up through arathi highlands and stonetalon mountains and if there have been more than ten other toons in a zone with me i d be surprised and before you point out that i play at odd hours i ve also been on in the evening and midday this past week and found no difference to the zone population if anything i ve found more people on darkshore in the early morning than in the evening which is also typically raid time what bothers me is that i ve seen even fewer horde than alliance in ashenvale and that used to never happen why have i been out and about leveling skinning and leatherworking to fill in the gaps in my gear of course leveling these professions means that i have to range far and wide to collect skins and or leather so i see a lot of the zones i ve also seen my fps drop as soon as i enter a new zone not the official fps mind you but there s a visible slowdown on screen on some zones that i can only attribute to the cross server manipulation i was hoping that the lack of toons in darnassus was just a blip on the radar but that seems to not be the case this whole cross server change has made me wonder just how many servers they merge at one time in a zone and whether this is dynamic or not while i do have to admit from a technical standpoint it s pretty impressive i m kind of disheartened by the knowledge that things would be even worse if blizz wasn t performing their wizardry let s call the cross server zones what they really are lowbie server merges they re indicative of an increasingly visible problem that wow has most of the toons are at or close to max level and there s a lack of new blood coming into the game okay now with that declaration there is a big caveat blizz encourages new players to go to new player servers a brand new player not one invited to play by a current player will most likely end up there meaning that those servers will have a disproportionate share of lowbie toons however those new player servers have a reputation for having such a small server population that they couldn t even rate low on the activity listings i ve hashed all this before when the cross server merges were first announced but having seen the mists wave come and go i think this discussion has to be reopened to fix this problem i d so something that for blizz would be truly radical make l1 l60 playable without a subscription that doesn t mean completely f2p since you d have to buy the game expacs if you want to play a pandaren goblin or worgen but after that purchase having the first 60 levels free would bring in a lot of activity to the game i m also amenable to extending the starter edition to l60 which would get a player to outland and just enough to whet their appetite for more would blizz lose money on this idea maybe maybe not it depends on how many people convert to a subscription and how much money it would cost to handle the server load versus how much technical expertise it would take to expand the lowbie zone merges seamlessly now this might wreak havoc with the auction house given that gold farmers will use this to flood the market with goods for sale but you never know what might go down a subscriber won t necessarily need a separate account but the subscriber s children or significant other might an occasional player who can t afford a sub can keep in touch with guildies the player who left and wants an extended test run can do so the old timer who grouses that the only way aq40 should be run is at level can now do so and maybe it will make some of those old l55 60 zones more relevant again okay that s probably asking too much of silithus but the others ashenvale and stonetalon are two of the worst i overheard this one once in gen chat in the yo mama vein your server is so empty that it dreams of the day it can be classified as a new player server posted by redbeard at 10 50 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels leveling musings wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred and other junk we have to talk about 4 hours ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 1 week ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 4 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor 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